Language and citizenship in Japan
By: edited by Nanette Gottlieb
Series: Routledge studies in Sociolinguistics -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415897228
Subjects: Languages; Linguistics; Study and teaching; Second language acquisition; Citizenship; Language and languages; Language and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Language, citizenship, and identity in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb; title: After homogeneity: maintaining unity in a linguistically diversifying Japan / Patrick Heinrich; title: It's better if they speak broken Japanese?: Language as a pathway or an obstacle to citizenship in Japan? / Chris Burgess; title: Languages and citizenship in education: Migrant languages in government schools / Kaori H. Okano; title: Children Crossing Borders and their citizenship in Japan / Ikuo Kawakami; title: Remedial language education and citizenship: Examining the JSL classroom as an ethnic project / Robert Moorehead; title: Gender capital and the educated citizen: Japanese mothers speaking of language acquisition and education for foreign children / Genaro Castro-Vezquez; title: Cultural citizenship and the hierarchy of foreign languages: Japanese Brazilians' views on the status of English and Portuguese in Japan / Ernani Oda; title: Language rights of non-Japanese defendants in Japanese criminal courts / Ikuko Nakane; title: English is my home: Citizenship, language, and identity in the Ogasawara Islands / David Chapman and Daniel Long; title: Multilingual or Easy Japanese? Promoting citizenship via local government websites / Tessa Carroll.